19 Facts About Persona 4

1.

Persona 4, released outside of Japan as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, is a role-playing video game by Atlus.

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2.

Persona 4 takes place in a fictional Japanese countryside and is indirectly related to earlier Persona games.

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3.

Plot of Persona 4 was inspired by the work of mystery novelists owing to its murder mystery premise.

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4.

Party members from Persona 4 are prominently featured as playable characters in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth .

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5.

Each Persona 4 possesses its own skills, as well as strengths and weaknesses to certain attributes.

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6.

Each Persona 4 can carry up to eight skills at a time, with older skills needing to be forgotten in order to learn new ones.

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7.

Persona 4 takes place in the fictional, rural Japanese town of Inaba, which lies among floodplains and has its own high school and shopping districts.

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8.

Persona 4 Golden adds two new Social Links to the game; Adachi and Marie, a mysterious girl who becomes an assistant in the Velvet Room and wishes to uncover her lost memories.

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9.

Persona 4 was officially unveiled in the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu in March 2008.

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10.

Persona 4 allowed players full control of characters in battle.

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11.

Persona 4 remarked on how popular the interpretations of Kanji's Shadow were in the west, and how it did not change how the character was seen by the other audience.

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12.

Persona 4 received critical acclaim from game critics upon release.

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13.

In North America, Persona 4 was the highest-selling PlayStation 2 game on Amazon.

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14.

Persona 4 was awarded the "PlayStation 2 Game Prize" in the Famitsu Awards 2008, voted by readers of Famitsu.

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15.

Persona 4 Golden was the first game in the series to be released in traditional Chinese.

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16.

Release of Persona 4 Golden resulted in the surge of sales of PlayStation Vitas.

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17.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night is a rhythm game developed by Atlus for the PlayStation Vita, featuring music from the Persona series.

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18.

Persona 4's is hired to investigate the disappearance of a childhood friend in Yagakoro City where she is partnered with Sousei Kurogami, a mechanized detective.

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19.

VisuaLive: Persona 4 chronicled the events of the game up until Kanji's inclusion into the party.

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